At 3:28 PM -0500 10/26/97, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Synopsis: System Panics after running fsck and re-hup-ing or stopping >Apache process > >State-Changed-From-To: open-closed >State-Changed-By: coar >State-Changed-When: Sun Oct 26 12:28:38 PST 1997 >State-Changed-Why: >The problem is that you're trying to repair a disk while >it's in use, which is a major badness under any circumstances. >If you try to change a tyre while a vehicle is in motion, >and you get run over, you've no-one but yourself to blame. > >Apache opens some files and immediately unlinks them to >prevent any other process from being able to access (and >particularly modify) them. This is fairly common >practice. > >The workaround, or actually the correct procedure, is >for you to do your repairs on a quiescent filesystem. > >Thanks for using Apache! >Class-Changed-From-To: sw-bug-mistaken >Class-Changed-By: coar >Class-Changed-When: Sun Oct 26 12:28:38 PST 1997 >Severity-Changed-From-To: critical-non-critical >Severity-Changed-By: coar >Severity-Changed-When: Sun Oct 26 12:28:38 PST 1997
Fair enough. However, this file should be better documented. Thanks, Mitch
